The Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award is given "by the family and friends of George Bogin for a selection of four or five poems that use language in an original way to reflect the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary and to take a stand against oppression in any of its forms." Each winner receives a $500 prize. Winners 2001: Brian Henry 2002: Kevin Prufer, Judge: Jill Bialosky 2003: Susan Terris, Judge: Sonia Sanchez 2004: Kevin Prufer, Judge: Tory Dent 2005: G.C. Waldrep 2006: Kevin Prufer, Judge: Marie Howe 2007: Wayne Miller, Judge: Eleni Sikelianos 2008: Theresa Sotto, Judge: Prageeta Sharma 2009: Rusty Morrison, Judge: John Yau 2010: Sawnie Morris, Judge: Hettie Jones 2011: Suji Kwock Kim, Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Finalists: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Leslie Williams 2012: Suji Kwock Kim, Judge: Evie Shockley, Finalists: Rebecca Morgan Frank, Mary Morris 2013: Paula Bohince, Judge: Cate Marvin, Finalists: Jamaal May, Lucy Ricciardi 2014: Gary Young, Judge: Jessica Greenbaum, Finalists: Meena Alexander and Jane Wong 2015: Dean Rader, Judge: Stephen Burt, Finalists: Nina Puro and Diana Khoi Nguyen 2016: Adam O. Davis, Judge: Eduardo Corral, Finalists: Shara Lessley and Purvi Shah 2017: Marie La Viña, Judge: Victoria Redel, Finalists: Beth Bachmann, Kai Carlson-Wee, Aidan Forster, and Brian Tierney 2018: Brian Tierney, Judge: Daniel Borzutzky, Finalists Catherine Imbriglio and Cate Lycurgus 2019: Sarah Henning 2020: JinJin Xu Notes See also Poetry Society of America List of American literary awards List of poetry awards List of years in poetry External links Poetry Society of America main awards Web page American poetry awards Awards established in 2001 2001 establishments in the United States